The scrapblog editor, now a night editor at the Strib, made a temporary return to her former role as religion reporter tonight, covering the big interfaith service at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Minneapolis, where people gathered to grieve over the bridge catastrophe. (You can read it on Page A7 in Monday's newspaper or
online right here.) It was moving to see Buddhist monks, Muslim imams, Pentecostal Christians, Catholics, Hindus, respectful doubters and Native American traditional practitioners all under the same neo-Gothic arches. The scrapblog editor thinks such gatherings are as much about sharing emotions and rubbing shoulders with sympathetic fellow humans, a universal need, as they are about connecting with the divine. Those two impulses are related, for sure.
Meanwhile, the scrapblog editor's famous close personal famous dear longtime famous friend,
"Roadguy" Jim Foti, wrote
a really lovely essay about the Stone Arch bridge, where something similarly solemn and holy was going on today. If you haven't visited the Stone Arch bridge, cousins, we recommend that you do. It's the true heart of Minneapolis, especially now.
The scrapblog editor, now a night editor at the Strib, made a temporary return to her former role as religion reporter tonight, covering the big interfaith service at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Minneapolis, where people gathered to grieve over the bridge catastrophe. (You can read it on Page A7 in Monday's newspaper or online right here.) It was moving to see Buddhist monks, Muslim imams, Pentecostal Christians, Catholics, Hindus, respectful doubters and Native American traditional practitioners all under the same neo-Gothic arches. The scrapblog editor thinks such gatherings are as much about sharing emotions and rubbing shoulders with sympathetic fellow humans, a universal need, as they are about connecting with the divine. Those two impulses are related, for sure.
Meanwhile, the scrapblog editor's famous close personal famous dear longtime famous friend, "Roadguy" Jim Foti, wrote a really lovely essay about the Stone Arch bridge, where something similarly solemn and holy was going on today. If you haven't visited the Stone Arch bridge, cousins, we recommend that you do. It's the true heart of Minneapolis, especially now.
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